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Hello, HistoryNerd52, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)Reply


ANN

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Hi! I wanted to reply to you about ANN. In general they're seen as a reliable source for things like reviews, news, and release information. Many of their announcements are just reprinted press releases, so they're unlikely to be altered from from what the companies wrote. When it comes to the encyclopedia and the fan interest pieces, those typically can't be used.

Now as far as citing primary sources (company, works themselves), you can definitely use them to back up basic, concrete information such as release dates, character names, and the like. When it comes to more interpretive stuff, essentially anything that isn't outright stated, we can't use the source material for that - we need a secondary source that makes these claims. Something that I do want to note is that as far as sources go, e-commerce sites like Amazon should typically be avoided. Those are seen as promotional since the main goal of these sites is to sell you something.

I also wanted to point you towards this page, which goes over what sites are seen as reliable and which ones aren't. You may also want to see what you can copy over from the Japanese Wikipedia entry - it's definitely fine to translate the content over as long as you can source the material. It's OK to use machine translations like Google Translation, if you're curious - you just have to write the material in your own words, which is typically necessary since the material will be in broken English.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:52, 12 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Bethune

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I'm open to suggestions and comments. HistoryNerd52 (talk) 23:57, 8 July 2019 (UTC)Reply